Recent Publications relevant to
 East Anglian Earth Science
 

The phylogeny and palaeozoogeography of cold-water species of ostracod (Crustacea) from the Pre-Ludhamian Stage (late Pliocene-early Pleistocene), Red Crag Formation, East Anglia, England; with reference to the earliest arrival of Pacific species
Paleontological Research, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 1–22, December 31, 2009
ADRIAN M. WOOD

We have had a very interesting lecture from this Author.  His research has obviously proceeded further. It is obvious that very early cold periods had an effect on the North Sea. The following is a short abstract of his abstract.
The Pliocene Epoch represents a significant period in the palaeozoogeography of North Atlantic,
A climate crash during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) G6 (c.2.74 Ma) resulted in the extinction of early-mid Pliocene thermophilic ostracods and the subsequent emergence of oligothermal assemblages during the late Pliocene. During the numerous cold stages of the late Pliocene-early Pleistocene Arctic ostracod species were able to disperse southwards into the mid-latitudes of the North Atlantic. The Pre-Ludhamian Stage of the Red Crag Formation, Suffolk, England spans one such episode (c. 2.7–2.41 Ma) and thus offers new insight into the vagility of shallow marine ostracods as they responded to glacio-eustatic and isostatic change.

Adrian is such a good speaker that I hope he can give us another lecture next season [ET]

Biostratigraphic and aminostratigraphic constraints on the age of the Middle Pleistocene glacial succession in north Norfolk, UK
J. Quaternary Sci., Vol. 24 pp. 557–580, 2009
Preece, R. C., Parfitt, S. A., Coope, G. R., Penkman, K. E. H., Ponel, P. and Whittaker, J. E.

This very comprehensive paper obviously documents some very comprehensive research.  I will not attempt to review it here.  However I must point out that the contribution by Kirsty Penkman in particular is well worth serious consideration.  I am an admirer of the rigorous nature of her research techniques and thus I give credence to her finding consistent with the whole of the section concerned being of Anglian age (MIS 12).  This finding is in apparent contradiction to the previously published conclusions by Prof Rose et al. of evidence for an earlier glaciation such as in MIS 16.  [ET]